modrobert writes: "Just a friendly reminder it is soon time for the 34th Chaos Communication Congress (34C3) which takes place at the Leipzig congress and convention center in Germany on December 27th to 30th, 2017. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world. For 34 years, the congress has been organized by the community and appreciates all kinds of participation.

modrobert writes: "I watched the console related live talks at 33C3 (33rd Chaos Communication Congress). First off was the Nintendo Hacking 2016 talk presented by derrek, nedwill and naehrwert. Lots of interesting stuff about exploiting the WiiU and 3DS, methods used, ideas, etc. Then it was time for the Console Hacking 2016 by Marcan which focused on the hard work of getting Linux up and running on PS4, also debating if it can be regarded as a 'PC' or not. As expected, yet still a bit disappointing, no actual exploits used in either of the talks have been released so far even if the general methods to hack the consoles were explained to some degree."

ivc writes: "The annual CCC 33C3 congress is opening on the 27th Dec. through to the 30th Dec. with live streaming if you can't be there in person. The schedule is full of tasty console hacking and electronics talks from marcan, derrek, Ned Williamson, naehrwert, Michael Steil and even bunnie."

[source: wololo.net] For those of you who don’t know developer Hykem, he’s been a massive contributor to the console hacking scene. He’s worked on the security of the PS Vita, the PSP, the PS3, the PS4, and more recently the Wii U. He was recently at the center of some scene drama related to the release of an IOSU exploit, earlier this year. Then, he disappeared.

[source: bunnie_ @ bunniestudios.com] Today I filed a lawsuit against the US government, challenging Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Section 1201 means that you can be sued or prosecuted for accessing, speaking about, and tinkering with digital media and technologies that you have paid for. This violates our First Amendment rights, and I am asking the court to order the federal government to stop enforcing Section 1201.

Before Section 1201, the ownership of ideas was tempered by constitutional protections. Under this law, we had the right to tinker with gadgets that we bought, we had the right to record TV shows on our VCRs, and we had the right to remix songs. Section 1201 built an extra barrier around copyrightable works, restricting our prior ability to explore and create. In order to repair a gadget, we may have to decrypt its firmware; in order to remix a video, we may have to strip HDCP. Whereas we once readily expressed feelings and new ideas through remixes and hardware modifications, now we must first pause and ask: does this violate Section 1201? Especially now that cryptography pervades every aspect of modern life, every creative spark is likewise dampened by the chill of Section 1201.

Just a friendly reminder it is soon time for the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress (32C3) which takes place at the Hamburg Congress Center (CCH) in Germany as usual on December 27th to 30th, 2015. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world. For 32 years, the congress has been organized by the community and appreciates all kinds of participation.

Just a friendly reminder it is soon time for the 31st Chaos Communication Congress (31C3) which takes place at the Hamburg Congress Center (CCH) in Germany as usual on December 27th to 30th, 2014. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world. For 31 years, the congress has been organized by the community and appreciates all kinds of participation.

modrobert writes: "Just a friendly reminder it is soon time for the 30th Chaos Communication Congress (30C3) which takes place at the Hamburg Congress Center (CCH) in Germany as usual on December 27th to 30th, 2013. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world.

[source: GaryOPA @ maxconsole.com] Recently, PSVitaGuru, WiiUNewz, XboxOneCrunch, 360Crunch and now PS3Crunch have all merged with the Maxconsole Underground Forums, as such there will be some growing pains over the next few days, but we will sort them out quickly, if anyone has problems logging into the forums to post, try first adding 'imported_' in front of your username, then contact me via PM to request your old username back, or to change it, as that means someone (might even be you with old email) had an active account on Maxconsole using the same nick.

[source: bunnie_ @ bunniestudios.com] I am joining siftdna.org in a moment of silence to mark Aaron Swartz’ passing. On January 25, I will bring down my blog for the day to honor his contributions and mark the tragedy of his passing. Aaron’s treatment by MIT is not unfamiliar to me. Back when I was a graduate student there, I extracted security keys from the original Microsoft Xbox video game console. I still remember the crushing disappointment of receiving a letter from MIT legal repudiating any association with my work, effectively leaving me on my own to face Microsoft. However, in my case, the faculty of my then-lab, the AI lab, were outraged by this treatment. They openly defied MIT legal by publishing my work as an official AI Lab Memo, thereby granting me greater negotiating leverage with Microsoft. Microsoft, mindful of the potential backlash from the court of public opinion over suing an openly legitimized academic researcher, came to a civil understanding with me over the issue.

modrobert writes: "Just a friendly reminder it is soon time for the 29th Chaos Communication Congress (29C3) which takes place at the Hamburg Congress Center (CCH) in Germany as usual on December 27th to 30th, 2012. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world."

[source: bunnie @ jailbreakingisnotacrime.org] You bought it. You own it. Tell the Copyright Office: let me install whatever software I want on my phone, tablet, or video game system. bunnie Huang, author of Hacking the Xbox, is standing with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to defend users' right to jailbreak. Will you sign on to bunnie's letter to show the Copyright Office that users everywhere are demanding the right to jailbreak?

modrobert writes: "Just a friendly reminder it is soon time for the 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) which takes place at the Berliner Congress Center (bcc) in Berlin/Germany as usual on December 27th to 30th, 2011. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world."

[source: xiaNaix @ psx-scene.com] In 2002, Guichi and I started what was then called PS2Newz.net Our small Playstation forum grew quickly and soon became PS2-Scene.org, the premiere source for PS2 scene news and information. With the announcement of the Playstation 3 and the PS2 in it’s twilight years, Guichi retired and I focused my attention on a site for the newly released Nintendo Wii console. We changed names once again and became known as PSX-SCENE. In August of last year, PSX-SCENE was first with the news of the world’s first PS3 modchip, PS Jailbreak. The site immediately drew world-wide attention, and was linked by numerous mainstream news sources. Then, in January of 2011, Sony filed a lawsuit against famed iPhone and PS3 hacker Geohot, as well as several other PS3 homebrew developers. Once again, PSX-SCENE was at the forefront of things, providing case updates and court filings on a regular basis. The name PSX-SCENE quickly became well-known even outside of the homebrew community.

[source: grafchokolo.com] Guys, i never wanted to take money from anybody for my work. And i always shared my work and code with PS3 developers and community. Recently i was working on bringing Linux to PS3 back, as you all know, unfortunately SONY managed to stop me. Many of you offered donations to help me continue my work and i always declined as you know. But now i really need your help and support in this fight with SONY. Please help me to pay my legal bills which are immensely because i cannot pay them on my own.

[source: ccc.de] The 27th Chaos Communication Congress (27C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). It takes place at the bcc Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany, December 27th to 30th, 2010.The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world. For 27 years, the congress is organized by the community and appreciates all kinds of participation. You are encouraged to contribute by volunteering, setting up and attending hands-on events or presenting your own projects to fellow hackers.

[source: LBGSHI @ ps2dev.org] As members of the video game homebrew/development/reverse-engineering scene, we admittedly spend a considerable amount of time re-inventing the wheel. This is sometimes necessarily so, but much of the time it can be avoided by cohesion and the application of standards. Parasyte and, to varying degrees, other scene members from GSHI, KodeWerx, RHDN, and abroad, are working on a new protocol, known as SRDP - Scalable Remote Debugger Protocol, as the title has already alerted you. Straight from the source's mouth, SRDP is "a remote debugging protocol, applicable to emulators and video game hardware, among other uses.", which "will allow the same debugger user interfaces to be used on any emulator of your choosing, or even on the real deal." This standardization means that any debugger UI upgrade would be a universal one, across any system physically capable of supporting the new features implemented. This would be a huge leap forward in debugger technology and methodology, and would save a lot of time and effort that usually goes to waste with every new debugger for every new system. Whether you're a developer, a regular user of debuggers, or just an interested member of the community, you can help, merely by showing interest and making a post on one of the SRDP threads. Ask questions that spark discussion, contribute example code, and feel free to spread the word to anyone you think might be interested. For a spec sheet in progress, drop by HERE, and for a synopsis of SRDP by Parasyte, check out the threads HERE and HERE.

modrobert writes: "Brakken over at tehskeen.com has closed down his network of websites due to circumstances out of his control. I don't know if that means the site was hacked and data was lost or something else. This is not the first time the sites goes down, so I for one hope this downtime is just temporary. Read on for Brakken's statement..."

modrobert writes: "Bushing has posted a wrap up of the Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) over at hackmii.com. The majority of Team Twiizers were there including tmbinc (Felix Domke) who also gave a speech on 'Blackbox JTAG Reverse Engineering'."

[source: ccc.de] The 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). It takes place from December 27th to December 30th 2009 at the bcc Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world. The 26C3s slogan is "Here Be Dragons".

[source: thelocal.se] Sweden’s Pirate Party has climbed into third place among parties running for the European Parliament elections, according to a new opinion poll released Thursday. The Pirate Party now has the support of 7.9 percent of Swedish voters, up from 3.4 percent from a week earlier, according to the Demoskop poll conducted between May 13 and Wednesday. That is still well behind Sweden's opposition Social Democrats with 35.9 percent and Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's conservative Moderate Party with 24.1 percent. But it could be enough for it to clinch at least one seat in the European Parliament, on the heels of the April 17 conviction in Sweden of the three founders of the unrelated file-sharing website The Pirate Bay. "Of course it is fantastic, but nothing is clear until the votes are counted," Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge told Sweden's domestic TT news agency. "It is still up to all those who care about basic civil rights and these fundamental values to go out and vote."

modrobert writes: "Just found this news posted by Brakken over at his site tehskeen.com. With the headline 'killer dose' followed by the short message 'I just took 100+ xanax .... cya on the other side'. From what I can gather by reading down the long forum thread of replies Brakken has been picked up by the police and is ok, currently treated in custody where he will stay a couple of weeks. I hope he gets well soon."

[source: Kojote @ pdroms.de] It's reality again, here comes PDROMS CODING COMPETITION v4.01 - Retro Coding Fun for Console and Handhelds! Coding on "closed" handhelds or consoles must not be a privilege; dozens of free development kits proof the opposite. The steadily growing "homebrew scene" produces unlicensed software for devices not meant to be open for everyone. PDRoms has always been in the homebrew scene to support the creation of new homebrew software, support programmers and artists. To show our love to the homebrew scene once again, here comes the ninth PDRoms Coding Competition.

[source: ccc.de] The 25th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). It takes place at the bcc Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics and attracts a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world. The 25C3s slogan is "Nothing to hide".

brakken writes: "It's that time again! Blogcast #3 has been released. In this cast I cover lame kids these days and their so called 'gamer' tag, Wraggster's stupidity, GBATEMP morons and the Nintendo Wii Backup Loader. Get r' Downloaded!"

brakken writes: "I've just put a new site online which contains a massive collection of scene related review links. Each link contains an image, description and a link to the review. If you sign up you can rate each review and also submit your own review links to be added to the database. If you like to read reviews I suggest you check out the site.

brakken writes: "I said I'd be back. So it's a few months late, cry me a river. Brakken.net is back along with BlogCast #2. If you haven't visited the site before you should as you might learn something (unless you're as dumb as Zeus). Here's the highlights from BlogCast #2 ..."

modrobert writes: "In case you wonder what happened to wiinewz.com/psx-scene.com their admin xiaNaix reported serious database problems yesterday (2008-03-12) and they are currently working on getting it fixed. I hope they get it sorted soon as the site is a great resource for ps2 and wii hacking. Read on for the official note from their staff..."

modrobert writes: "I started a new web forum a while back with focus on console game reviews but it also covers hardware reviews and gaming news. You are hereby invited and most welcome to join consolereview.net as a member or just pay a visit to look around. This site was born from my deep fascination of video games which started when I played the first pong game as a kid. I kind of suck at writing reviews but like to comment the games in a relaxed forum environment where no sponsor ads makes everything biased, this was the general idea behind the site. I also managed to convince some of my friends over at #dextrose to become moderators, so watch your six! ;) "

[source: Brakken @ brakken.net]I've just uploaded my first "BlogCast" which is sorta like a "Podcast", but better. Well, whoever came up with the name "Podcast" was an idiot because it's just a damned audio file with some idiots rambling on about his life, kids, job or pets. Well, in this case it's me rambling on about my life, how I entered the "scene", started TehSkeen and founded brakken.net. Of course it's me so there's a lot of shit talking ass cracking to go around.

Note: Brakken's BlogCast #01 can be found in the download section here.

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